The Digital Curation Blog has a lengthy series of roundup posts on the just-past International Digital Curation Conference. Next year in Chicago! I will be there with bells on.

Climate change for libraries. No, nothing to do with the climate data scandal; instead, a cogent exploration of why libraries ought to be involved earlier in the research process, and how we might go about getting involved.

When tools aren’t curated: Deepak Singh notes with irritation the shutting-down of two software projects that were useful in his work. This, too, is part of data curation: once software tools are used on data in the course of research, those tools are part of the scholarly record. (They could, after all, have been poorly coded or based on faulty assumptions; that needs to be known.)

Regarding that last one, would it be helpful for me to try to maintain a jobs roundup here? If you think so, drop me a comment. I’d also appreciate pointers to good places to spot such jobs. I know most of the library sources, but based on this poster helpfully pointed out to me by commenter Nic Weber, a lot of the job ads will go out in science venues.

Here’s hoping my choir’s dress rehearsal scheduled for tonight can actually happen? in the meantime, I raise my hot-chocolate mug to you all.

Comments

A jobs thing would prolly only be useful to your US readers, (unless you are willing to try to do it globally – egad…) so no, I wouldn’t want that. Sherpa runs a good one for us in the UK already [http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/jobs/index.html]

Well, yes, Lee, I assume so! (Hi, by the way; good to see you here!) It’s just a weird idea from where I’m sitting.

When I think “humanities data curation” I think image digitization, text encoding (particularly TEI), and multimedia management. When I think about social-science data, I think about statistical tools and GIS, mostly. The skillsets just seem very disjoint, and not terribly likely to turn up in the same person.